page_title: Cinnamomum
section_title: Selected species
hierarchical_section_title: Cinnamomum / Selected species
caption_attribution_description: Cinnamomum iners Reinwardt. ex Blume, C.Linnaeus
context_page_description: Cinnamomum is a genus of evergreen aromatic trees and shrubs belonging to the laurel family, Lauraceae. The species of Cinnamomum have aromatic oils in their leaves and bark. The genus contains over 300 species, distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of North America, Central America, South America, Asia, Oceania, and Australasia. The genus includes a great number of economically important trees.
context_section_description: About 250 species are known, including several commercially important ones.
  Cinnamomum parthenoxylon and Cinnamomum camphora are large evergreen trees that can grow to 30 m in height and 3 m in diameter, with broadly ovate crowns. Terminal buds are broadly ovoid or globular, and covered with sericeous scales. Bark is yellowish-brown with irregular vertical splits. Branches are light brown, cylindrical, and glabrous.
  The inner bark of several species is used to make the spice, cinnamon. Other notable species are C. tamala, used as the herb malabathrum (also called tejpat and Indian bay leaf), and C. camphora, from which camphor is produced.
  Cinnamomum acuminatifolium
  Cinnamomum acuminatissimum
  Cinnamomum acutatum
  Cinnamomum africanum
  Cinnamomum aggregatum
  Cinnamomum alainii
  Cinnamomum alatum
  Cinnamomum albiflorum
  Cinnamomum alcinii
  Cinnamomum alexei
  Cinnamomum alibertii
  Cinnamomum alternifolium
  Cinnamomum altissimum
  Cinnamomum ammannii
  Cinnamomum amoenum
  Cinnamomum amplexicaule
  Cinnamomum amplifolium
  Cinnamomum anacardium
  Cinnamomum andersonii
  Cinnamomum angustifolium
  Cinnamomum angustitepalum
  Cinnamomum antillarum
  Cinnamomum appelianum
  Cinnamomum arbusculum
  Cinnamomum archboldianum
  Cinnamomum areolatocostae
  Cinnamomum areolatum
  Cinnamomum arfakense
  Cinnamomum argenteum
  Cinnamomum arsenei
  Cinnamomum asa-grayi
  Cinnamomum assamicum
  Cinnamomum aubletii
  Cinnamomum aureo-fulvum
  Cinnamomum australe
  Cinnamomum austro-sinense
  Cinnamomum austro-yunnanense
  Cinnamomum bahianum
  Cinnamomum bahiense
  Cinnamomum baileyanum
  Cinnamomum baillonii
  Cinnamomum balansae
  Cinnamomum bamoense
  Cinnamomum barbato-axillatum
  Cinnamomum barbeyanum
  Cinnamomum barlowii
  Cinnamomum bartheifolium
  Cinnamomum barthii
  Cinnamomum bazania
  Cinnamomum beccarii
  Cinnamomum bejolghota
  Cinnamomum bengalense
  Cinnamomum biafranum
  Cinnamomum bintulense
  Cinnamomum birmanicum
  Cinnamomum blumei
  Cinnamomum bodinieri
  Cinnamomum bonii
  Cinnamomum bonplandii
  Cinnamomum borneense
  Cinnamomum bourgeauvianum
  Cinnamomum boutonii
  Cinnamomum brachythyrsum
  Cinnamomum bractefoliaceum
  Cinnamomum burmannii – Indonesian cinnamon
  Cinnamomum cambodianum
  Cinnamomum camphora – camphor laurel
  Cinnamomum cassia – (C. aromaticum) Chinese cinnamon also called cassia
  Cinnamomum caudiferum
  Cinnamomum cebuense
  Cinnamomum chartophyllum
  Cinnamomum citriodorum – Malabar cinnamon
  Cinnamomum contractum
  Cinnamomum culilawan
  Cinnamomum dubium – Wild cinnamon
  Cinnamomum elegans
  Cinnamomum filipes
  Cinnamomum glanduliferum
  Cinnamomum glaucescens
  Cinnamomum ilicioides
  Cinnamomum impressinervium
  Cinnamomum iners
  Cinnamomum japonicum – (C. pedunculatum, Japanese cinnamon)
  Cinnamomum javanicum
  Cinnamomum jensenianum
  Cinnamomum kanehirae – (stout camphor tree niu zhang (Chinese: 牛樟); endemic to Taiwan)
  Cinnamomum kotoense
  Cinnamomum kwangtungense
  Cinnamomum liangii
  Cinnamomum longepaniculatum
  Cinnamomum longipetiolatum
  Cinnamomum loureiroi – (Saigon cinnamon)
  Cinnamomum mairei
  Cinnamomum malabatrum
  Cinnamomum mercadoi  Vidal – (kalingag tree)
  Cinnamomum micranthum
  Cinnamomum migao
  Cinnamomum mollifolium
  Cinnamomum oliveri
  Cinnamomum osmophloeum – (pseudocinnamomum)
  Cinnamomum ovalifolium
  Cinnamomum parthenoxylon – (Selasian wood, Martaban camphor wood, saffrol laurel, alcanforero amarillo, mreah prew phnom, kayu gadis, telasihan, huang zhang (Chinese: 黃樟))
  Cinnamomum pauciflorum
  Cinnamomum pedunculatum
  Cinnamomum philippinense
  Cinnamomum pingbienense
  Cinnamomum pittosporoides
  Cinnamomum platyphyllum
  Cinnamomum porphyrium
  Cinnamomum porrectum
  Cinnamomum reticulatum
  Cinnamomum rigidissimum
  Cinnamomum saxatile
  Cinnamomum septentrionale
  Cinnamomum sinharajaense
  Cinnamomum sintoc Blume
  Cinnamomum subavenium
  Cinnamomum tamala – (tejpat, Indian bay leaf, or malabathrum)
  Cinnamomum tenuipilum
  Cinnamomum tonkinense
  Cinnamomum triplinerve
  Cinnamomum tsangii
  Cinnamomum tsoi
  Cinnamomum validinerve
  Cinnamomum verum – (cinnamon, Ceylon cinnamon, or true cinnamon)
  Cinnamomum virens – (red-barked sassafras, eastern Australia)
  Cinnamomum walaiwarense
  Cinnamomum wilsonii
caption: Drawing of Cinnamomum iners Reinwardt. ex Blume by J.C.P. Arckenhausen, ~1835
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